Chapter 398 (1/2)
the Chinese new year's eve.
Spring Festival.
same evening.
Zhuang Shikai and may sat in the restaurant of the manor mansion, raised their glasses and smiled at each other: ”happy new year.”
”Jingle.” The two glasses touched each other gently.
”Whew!”
A fireworks bloomed in the sky.
”Happy new year.” May smiled and narrowed her eyes, watching the man hold his head up and drink the red wine.
In fact, may seldom drinks, but she never spoils her men's fun.
She thinks nothing is happier than men. As long as men are happy, nothing is good.
She is also willing to do anything and work hard for the man in front of her.
”This is our tenth Spring Festival together.” Zhuang Shikai put down his glass and sighed slightly.
”There are twenty, thirty... Until old...”
”Then I'll die first.”
”Because I don't want to lose you.”
May put a chopstick of fish into his bowl, took back the chopsticks and picked up a radian at the corner of her mouth.
Zhuang Shikai smiled bitterly and said, ”you've played the abacus very well.”
In front of them are the traditional dishes such as fish, new year's cake and braised meat in Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
The fish is steamed Wuchang fish, the meat is braised with plum vegetables, and the New Year cake is Cantonese fried New Year cake
There are more than ten dishes in the middle of the oval table, each of which is made by Amy herself.
Over the past ten years, ”may” has a superb cooking skill. She usually has no problem with a table of home-made dishes.
If you work hard occasionally, you can make a big dish!
In the past ten years, she cooked every year's dinner in person, and she did better every year. May really has nothing to say about taking care of her family.
This year's new year's Eve dinner ”may” is still busy from morning to night... Full of color, smell and taste! The only disadvantage is a little waste!
But how can there be no waste of new year's Eve dinner? It's not that poor can't afford to eat! Of course, we can't spoil the atmosphere today.
”I asked someone to buy some nutrition abroad.”
”Send it to my parents tomorrow.” While eating, Zhuang Shikai suddenly said.
May nodded cleverly, ”OK.”
”My parents will be very happy.”
Although there is no one in Zhuang Sir's family, only two people often eat together during the new year. Occasionally, rose will cross the sea to Hong Kong Island for new year's Eve dinner, but the frequency is not very high.
After all, she has Gang power in Baodao, and it is most difficult to go away when it is the busiest.
Ten years will be three years.
Basically don't think about her.
May's parents are in the countryside of Hong Kong Island, and there are a group of relatives in the countryside.
To be reasonable, Zhuang Sir can go to the countryside for the new year at any time.
But he doesn't go to the countryside. How can he go to the countryside for the new year? Zhuang Sir doesn't mind. There are people outside who do. It's easy to damage his reputation.
You know, there were no ”emerging humans” in the 1980s, and the concept of Chinese was still a thousand years old. Those who are big men must pay attention to it. Otherwise, one day when walking outside and being pointed at by the nose and said it was an inverted door, he and his little brother can't hang their faces.
So according to the rules, Zhuang Sir took may to the countryside on the first day of the new year to pay New Year's greetings and send some supplements to the elderly. As for connecting the elderly to Repulse Bay? People disdain to come to your big villa!
There are so many relatives and dancers in the countryside. On the 15th day of the lunar new year, there are wandering gods and temple fairs. Who wants to drink the West and north wind in your villa?
The old family didn't want to come again except that they gave face the first year, expressed shock to the villa and reverence to Zhuang sir.
They have a group of relatives and friends in the countryside and live in the neighborhood. That's their flavor.
If Zhuang Sir had not been reborn and changed his identity, he would have liked this new year's flavor better. Therefore, after paying respects to the new year every year, he would spend a few days in the countryside and participate in various folk activities accompanied by local gentry.
Or give a golden eye to the lion and dragon dance, or wear safflower and cut vegetables. It is always to give face to the villagers in the foot village and enjoy with the people at least.
Of course, it's not that others are holding Zhuang Sir's neck to make him happy, but that he really likes to participate in this kind of activity. He feels very confident to go to the countryside in person. It is helpful for political image and business development.
Because this kind of occasion can not only have a good relationship with the civil gentry class, but also enable the ordinary people to really contact and understand him, which is much more basic than deliberate speeches and leaflets.
Hehe, he pulled all the votes for the future democratic election system in advance! The new territories and Kowloon countryside are all his ticket warehouses!
As for the other banquets with the guys? The banquet of private tail tooth banquet has long been placed in the tea house. New year's Eve and the first and second day of the new year... Everyone has to eat with his family and visit relatives and friends. Who is free to play with you before the seventh day of the new year? When you come out to meet and drink tea, you have to fight the table! No one will entertain you if you don't share the table!
Therefore, Zhuang Shikai and may have long been used to the atmosphere of new year's Eve... There is no noise and noise in the warmth, quiet and peaceful, but it is inevitable to be a little lonely.
Coldness is easily diluted by passion when you are young, but when people are deep and familiar, they desire more things and want rich feelings.
Zhuang Sir himself noticed this little coldness for the first time.
He suddenly found that may's mood was not very high, so he smiled and said, ”wife, shall I take you on a trip for the new year?”
”Europe, North America, you choose a place, I let someone book a ticket.”
May bit her chopsticks with her teeth and shook her head to refuse.
”Then go shopping?”